Dancer In The Dark

Dancer In The Dark is a 2000 film about Selma Ježková, a Czech immigrant and single mom who suffers from a hereditary degenerative disease that will inevitably cause her to go blind, who moved to the United States hoping to give her son a surgery that will save him from the same fate.

Selma: I've always known it. From... when I was a little girl, I knew.

Bill: And you're okay?

Selma: Well, I came to America because in America, they can give Gene an operation.

Selma: You know when the camera goes really big and it comes up out of the roof, and you just know that it's gonna end? I hate that. I used to cheat on that when I was a little girl back in Czechoslovakia. I would leave the cinema just after the next to last song, and the film would just go on forever. It's lovely, isn't it?

Bill: That is lovely.

Jeff: Look, I don't understand. In musicals... why do they start to sing and dance all of a sudden? I mean, I don't suddenly start... to sing and dance.

Selma: No... You're right, Jeff. You don't.

Jeff: You can't see, can you?

Selma: What is there to see?

Brenda: Why don't you try to think of something nice, all right?

Selma: It's just so quiet here.

Brenda: What's that got to do with it, Selma?

Selma: You know, when I used to work in the factory... I used to dream that I was in a musical... Because, in a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens.

Kathy: But he needs his mother, you know, alive, no matter where!

Selma: You don't understand! He needs his eyes!

Kathy: He needs his mother!

Selma: No!

Kathy: Yes! Alive!

Selma: NO!!

Kathy: Listen to reason for once, Selma! Selma...

Selma: I listen to my heart...

Jeff: Why did you have him? You knew he would have the same disease as you.